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The bill restores landlords' and courts' ability to resume eviction filings, trading renewed property-owner and judicial flexibility for increased eviction risk, housing instability, and higher costs for renters and local social services.
Homeowners and small-business property owners can immediately resume filing evictions, restoring their ability to seek rent recovery and regain control of rental units.
Courts, including local housing courts, can process pending and new eviction filings without the temporary statutory limitation, reducing case backlog uncertainty and restoring normal judicial eviction workflows.
Renters—especially low-income tenants—lose temporary eviction protections and face immediate eviction filings, increasing risk of displacement and short-term financial hardship.
Families who experienced pandemic-related income loss (including parents and middle-class households) may face housing instability or homelessness if eviction filings resume.
Local governments and urban communities could see increased demand for shelters and social services, raising municipal response costs and straining local safety-net resources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Deletes subsection (c) of 15 U.S.C. § 9058, removing the temporary eviction-filing limitations that subsection provided under the CARES Act.
Official title: To amend the CARES Act to remove a requirement on lessors to provide notice to vacate, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Barry D. Loudermilk · Last progress February 6, 2025
Strikes subsection (c) of 15 U.S.C. § 9058, removing the statutory text that provided temporary limits related to eviction filings under the CARES Act framework. The change narrows or eliminates the specific protections, prohibitions, definitions, or enforcement mechanisms that were contained in that subsection, which may allow eviction filings that had been restricted by that text to proceed. The bill is short and narrowly targeted: it deletes a single subsection of federal law rather than adding new programs or funding. Effects will be felt most directly by renters, low-income households, and owners/agents who manage rental housing, and will alter how courts and local governments process eviction filings where that subsection previously applied.